[maemo-developers] What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

[From: Jürg Billeter]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:06 +0100, Klaus Rotter wrote:
> Well, it is (to me) more a question of C vs C++. I started with C about 
> twenty years ago and liked it a lot. But some of the features of C++ in 
> addition with Qt are IMHO more "elegant", if you use a OO toolkit with 
> an OO language like C++. E.g. methods overloading (which is really nice).
> 
> But I often think C++ has to many features (for sure I didn't know them 
> all) and it is bloated whereas I think I know pretty much features of C.
> 
> Maybe the best would be C# (I like C# as a language design better that 
> java) with a native gtk# interface and a compiler with compiles this to 
> machine code. A gcc# would be nice...

You might be interested in Vala[1][2], then.

Jürg

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Vala
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Vala/HildonSample